12.08.2011

Corrugated Mittens

Another mitten pattern worked on two circular needles (although you can use DPNs, too). This pattern is for my Corrugated Mittens. I should note that this makes mittens sized Women's Small. This mitten has a 6-row pattern that is repeated for the whole hand, while the thumb is worked stockinette stitch.

When knitting next row, knit across needle #1. On needle #2, K1, put 17 thumb stitches on waste yarn and cast on 1 stitch (backwards loop method) and knit across the rest of the row for a total of 18 sts on needle #2 (36 sts total for hand).

Close to work the hand in the round. Work the rest of the hand in pattern repeating the following 6 rows to desired length. The row you knitted to close the hand is Row 1 in the pattern stitch.

Finishing Thumb:
Remove waste yarn and divide stitches onto two circular needles, 9 sts on needle #1, 8 sts on needle #2. Start knitting in the round and pick up 1 st from the edge of the hand where you CO 1 sts. Total thumb stitches = 18.

Work in the round until you are ready to decrease.

Row 1: K2tog across both needles (9 sts total).

Row 2: Knit one row even.

Row 3: K2tog, K2tog, K1 across both needles (5 sts total).

Pull yarn through remaining 5 stitches.

The gusset instructions above work the right mitten. When you want to work the left one, just move the increases to the end of needle #2, rather than at the beginning. Work the front exactly the same for both.

I'm still new to pattern writing, so if you have any comments on how to make this pattern better, please do let me know. Enjoy!

Actually, nm. 36 seems more right than 42 for the wrist, and your other patterns have same amount of stitches on front and back needles so 18 and 18. I was sleepy. :) Gonna try this pattern tomorrow! Thanks. :)

Hi Susan,Based on my husbands mittens, I would say to add an extra six stitches to each needle when you cast on (for a total of 48 stitches (24 on each needle instead of 18). Then I would suggest doing two extra sets of increases for the thumb (on Rows 20 and 22) so that you end up doing 10 increase rows (instead of just 8) and have 21 thumb stitches.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you Alicia. Yes! You definitely can go up in needle size to get a larger mitten. The only issue that you may run into is that the fabric might not be as dense/think, which I usually like for mittens. If you wanted to, you could use a thicker yarn in addition to larger needles to solve that problem. Good luck! Let me know how they turn out!